PSY321H1 Lecture Notes - Physical Attractiveness, Contact Hypothesis, Homicide

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15 Apr 2013
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Person perception refers to process of forming impressions of others includes judgments of appearance, attractiveness, personality traits. Greater height (considered attractive) associated with leadership ability, competence, and high salary size generally associated with strength and dominance perceptions held even by infants. People across cultures tend to agree on their judgments of personality: demonstrated through statements of personality based on pictures of facial expression. Experiment: american and japanese people made judgments of traits from faces of. Us and japanese political candidates: high agreement across cultures, predictive of percentage of votes each candidate received, each culture was better at predicting the election outcome of their own culture. Experiment: american and japanese observers were shown smiling faces that differed in the intensity for the eyes or the mouth: americans trusted face with more intensity in the mouth (smiling mouths) Believed smiling faces to be more intelligent. Japanese trusted face with more intensity in eyes.

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